Flavored cigarette ban significantly reduced youth smoking, new study finds
George Mason University study finds 2009 US Food and Drug Administration flavored cigarette ban reduced smoking by underage youth by ...
Month: July 2020
Children exposed to Deepwater Horizon oil spill suffered physical, mental health effects
Impacts persisted years after disasterCredit: Photo: U.S. Coast Guard/Patrick Kelley On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon ...
FSU news: Scientists discover heavy element chemistry can change at high pressures
Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt / Nature TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- New research shows that one of the heaviest known elements ...
Common FDA-approved drug may effectively neutralize virus that causes COVID-19
Heparin could be used as a decoy to prevent SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cellsCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- ...
Bed bugs modify microbiome of homes they infest
Credit: Benoit Guenard Homes infested by bed bugs appear to have different bacterial communities - often referred to as microbiomes ...
Shaking light with sound
Credit: Jijun He, Junqiu Liu (EPFL) Piezoelectric materials can convert electrical voltage to mechanical displacement and vice versa. They are ...
Bacteria with a metal diet discovered in dirty glassware
Finding ends a century-long search for microbes that live on manganeseCredit: Hang Yu/Caltech Caltech microbiologists have discovered bacteria that feed ...
FSU researchers find sun, rain transform asphalt binder into potentially toxic compounds
Credit: Credit: Sydney Niles TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A dramatic oil spill, such as the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf ...
How flies flip around on take-off from an upside- down position
Credit: Anna Verbe Flies are able to right themselves very quickly when taking off from an upside-down position. Scientists from ...
Biomedical instrument based on microvesicles
A paper saw light in Scientific ReportsCredit: Kazan Federal University Researchers have proved that a microvesicle-based instrument can be effective ...
Danforth Center scientist receives $1.4M grant to develop smart farm technology
FieldDock system will autonomously deploy UAV's to accelerate crop improvement and reduce energy, water and fertilizer inputs with zero-carbon footprintCredit: ...
Designed a new model to predict the life expectancy of a severe neurodegenerative disease
Credit: Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a serious minority neurodegenerative disease, with an annual rate of ...
The smallest micro-gripper, grown on optical fibers, is operated remotely with light
Credit: Source: UW Physics Researchers at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, used the liquid crystal elastomer technology to ...
Kiwis stockpile paracetamol, the basis of most calls to National Poisons Centre
Credit: Dr Eeva-Katri Kumpula While paracetamol was the most common substance of enquiry for calls to the National Poisons Centre ...
Improved test methods for safer battery systems
Between worst case and reality: KIT collaborates with partners to find new test methods and standards for lithium-ion cells in ...
SNMMI Image of the Year: Super-agers show resistance to tau and amyloid accumulation
Credit: Merle C. Hoenig, Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine II - Molecular Organization of the Brain, Research Center Juelich, Juelich, ...
Making balanced decisions
Neuronal circuits in the brain 'sense' our inner stateCredit: Nicolas Gompel Animals have an innate preference for certain scents and ...
Spread of flu virus in hospital environment common
Credit: Photo by Alana da Silva One in four inpatients with influenza in a given season showed signs of having ...
How breast cancer cells sneak past local immune defenses
Credit: Xue-Yan He, Egeblad lab, CSHL. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad and her colleagues describe a ...
Transparent inorganic multicolour displays enabled by zinc-based electrochromic devices
Credit: by Wu Zhang, Haizeng Li, William W. Yu, Abdulhakem Y. Elezzabi Multicolour electrochromic displays are one of the most ...
